MSN Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the Master of Science in Nursing, the graduate will be able to:
- Use interprofessional and organizational communication and relationship-building skills to create and lead highly functioning, reliable, and healthy teams.
- Demonstrate competence in advanced roles (FNP/CNS)-Nurse Educator).
- Analyze technologies to support safe practice environments and to optimize patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and health outcomes.
- Analyze how polices influence the structure and financing of healthcare, practice, and health outcomes.
- Employ ethical principles to decision-making in healthcare practices and systems.
- Use information systems to design, select, and evaluate programs of care, healthcare systems, and health outcomes.
- Integrate outcome data, evidence-based practice recommendations, and professional standards of care to improve population health outcomes.
- Critically analyze healthcare policies to influence and educate policymakers and stakeholders.
- Promote health by incorporating trauma informed care and identifying Social Determinants of Health and populations at increased risk particularly rural/underserved.
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SLOs Mapped to PNSG and AACN |
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BSN Program SLOs |
QSEN Competencies (2020) |
Baccalaureate Essentials (AACN, 2008) |
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At the completion of the baccalaureate program the student will demonstrate the following: 1.Apply knowledge from the liberal arts and sciences to professional nursing practice. |
Patient-centered care Evidence-based care |
I. Liberal Education for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice III. Scholarship for Evidence- Based Practice |
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2. Analyze and apply evidence from research and other information sources as a basis for nursing practice. |
Patient-centered care Quality Improvement Safety |
III. Scholarship for Evidence- Based Practice
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3.Apply knowledge and skills in using information systems and a range of patient-care technologies to facilitate delivery of safe, quality patient care. |
Patient-centered care Teamwork/collaboration Evidence-based practice Informatics
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II. Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety IV. Information Management and Application of Patient Care Technology |
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4. Advocate for financial and regulatory healthcare policies, processes, and environments that improve the nature and functioning of the healthcare delivery system and nursing practice.
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Patient-centered care Teamwork/collaboration Evidence-based practice Safety |
IV. Information Management and Application of Patient Care Technology V. Healthcare Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments
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5.Collaborate and communicate effectively with healthcare professionals to promote positive working relationships, improve patient health outcomes, and deliver safe, quality patient care.
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Patient-centered care Teamwork/collaboration |
VI. Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes VIII. Professionalism and Professional Values |
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6. Apply knowledge and skills of organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement and patient safety in promoting safe, high-quality care for diverse patients across healthcare systems and environments.
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Safety Patient-centered care Teamwork/collaboration |
VI. Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes IX. Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice |
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7. Assess factors that influence health and apply culturally appropriate health promotion and disease prevention to diverse individuals and populations.
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Patient-centered care |
VII. Clinical Prevention and Population Health |
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8.Demonstrate consistent application of nursing’s professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct.
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Patient-centered care Safety |
VIII. Professionalism and Professional Values |
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Quality and Safety in Education Nursing (QSEN) Pre-licensure |
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QSEN Competencies: patient-centered care, teamwork/collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. Patient-centered care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. Teamwork and collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Evidence-based practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Quality improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making. |